• Home
    • Buying the Music.
  • Music Meditation
  • Reading the Menu
  • Translated mantras C
    • om tare tutare ture soha
    • purnam-adah-purnam-idam
    • Rādhe Rādhe Rādhe Shyām
    • sarvesham svastir bhavatu
    • Shambho Shangkara namah Shivaya >
      • Shambhu Shankara Namah Shivaya Krishna Das meaning
      • Om Namah Shivaya Krishna Das. Lyrics, meaning, discussion.
    • shri sache maha prabhu
    • Shiva Shiva Shambho Shangkara
    • Sīta Ram Hanuman.
    • twam eva.
    • tri-ambakam yajamahe >
      • Maha Mrityeonjaya Hein Braat meaning
  • Translated mantras B
    • mangalam bhagavan Vishnu
    • namah Shivaya hare Hari om
    • om bhakta jai
    • Bhakti Heenam
    • om jaya Shiva Shambo
    • om asat oma sad gamaya
    • om mani padme hum
    • om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya
    • om namō narāyanāya
    • om namah Shivaya
    • om param eshvaraya vidmahe
    • om tat purushaya vidmahi
  • Mantras Translated A
    • amma amma taye
    • chid-ananda-rupah shivo-ham
    • The Essence of All
    • gate gate para gate
    • Gayatri om bhur bhuvah svaha
    • Govinda, Gopala Radha. >
      • Radhe Govinda Krishna Das meaning
      • sands of pleasure lyrics translation
    • hare Krishna hare Rama (a) >
      • hare Krishna hare Rama (b)
      • The Hare Krishna Sect.
    • jai Radha Madhava - Meaning.
    • je ma je Kali ma
    • Moola Mantra
  • Spiritual Practice
    • A : Introduction to Practice
    • B : Buddha's Enlightenment
    • C Meditation for Enlightenment.
    • D Self Realisation
    • E : The Ego
    • F : Discharge of DIstress
    • G : Relationships
    • I : Desire >
      • dhammacakkappavattana sutta word by word
    • J : Karma
    • K : Dissatisfaction and Anger
    • References. >
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  • pronouncing the Sanskrit
    • Sanskrit Cases
  • Scriptures
    • Bhagavad Gita
    • Mandukya Upanishad word by word
    • Isha Upanishad word by word
    • Free Enquiry
    • Dhammapada
    • Satipatthana Sutta >
      • Satipatthana Sutta selections
    • Heart Sutra
    • broken buddhism
    • Good and Evil
    • Hindu Themes >
      • Principles
      • Practice
      • The Sacred
      • Practicalities
      • Purusha
  • Protecting Mother Nature.
  • Deity and Kirtan
    • God in Hinduism
    • Interpreting Deity
    • More About Shiva
  • Course in Meditation
    • Instructions During Meditation.
    • 1. All attention on sensation.
    • 2. Return and Stay With
    • 3 Letting Go.
    • 4 Cultivating and Developing.
    • 5 Making Effort
    • 6 Beauty
    • 7 Beauty of Spiritual Qualities
    • 8. Suffering
    • Traditional Terminology
  • About Mike
  • om namah Shivaya
  • Home
    • Buying the Music.
  • Music Meditation
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  • Translated mantras C
    • om tare tutare ture soha
    • purnam-adah-purnam-idam
    • Rādhe Rādhe Rādhe Shyām
    • sarvesham svastir bhavatu
    • Shambho Shangkara namah Shivaya >
      • Shambhu Shankara Namah Shivaya Krishna Das meaning
      • Om Namah Shivaya Krishna Das. Lyrics, meaning, discussion.
    • shri sache maha prabhu
    • Shiva Shiva Shambho Shangkara
    • Sīta Ram Hanuman.
    • twam eva.
    • tri-ambakam yajamahe >
      • Maha Mrityeonjaya Hein Braat meaning
  • Translated mantras B
    • mangalam bhagavan Vishnu
    • namah Shivaya hare Hari om
    • om bhakta jai
    • Bhakti Heenam
    • om jaya Shiva Shambo
    • om asat oma sad gamaya
    • om mani padme hum
    • om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya
    • om namō narāyanāya
    • om namah Shivaya
    • om param eshvaraya vidmahe
    • om tat purushaya vidmahi
  • Mantras Translated A
    • amma amma taye
    • chid-ananda-rupah shivo-ham
    • The Essence of All
    • gate gate para gate
    • Gayatri om bhur bhuvah svaha
    • Govinda, Gopala Radha. >
      • Radhe Govinda Krishna Das meaning
      • sands of pleasure lyrics translation
    • hare Krishna hare Rama (a) >
      • hare Krishna hare Rama (b)
      • The Hare Krishna Sect.
    • jai Radha Madhava - Meaning.
    • je ma je Kali ma
    • Moola Mantra
  • Spiritual Practice
    • A : Introduction to Practice
    • B : Buddha's Enlightenment
    • C Meditation for Enlightenment.
    • D Self Realisation
    • E : The Ego
    • F : Discharge of DIstress
    • G : Relationships
    • I : Desire >
      • dhammacakkappavattana sutta word by word
    • J : Karma
    • K : Dissatisfaction and Anger
    • References. >
      • New Page 2
      • New Page 3
  • pronouncing the Sanskrit
    • Sanskrit Cases
  • Scriptures
    • Bhagavad Gita
    • Mandukya Upanishad word by word
    • Isha Upanishad word by word
    • Free Enquiry
    • Dhammapada
    • Satipatthana Sutta >
      • Satipatthana Sutta selections
    • Heart Sutra
    • broken buddhism
    • Good and Evil
    • Hindu Themes >
      • Principles
      • Practice
      • The Sacred
      • Practicalities
      • Purusha
  • Protecting Mother Nature.
  • Deity and Kirtan
    • God in Hinduism
    • Interpreting Deity
    • More About Shiva
  • Course in Meditation
    • Instructions During Meditation.
    • 1. All attention on sensation.
    • 2. Return and Stay With
    • 3 Letting Go.
    • 4 Cultivating and Developing.
    • 5 Making Effort
    • 6 Beauty
    • 7 Beauty of Spiritual Qualities
    • 8. Suffering
    • Traditional Terminology
  • About Mike
  • om namah Shivaya
  Pathway
  • Home
    • Buying the Music.
  • Music Meditation
  • Reading the Menu
  • Translated mantras C
    • om tare tutare ture soha
    • purnam-adah-purnam-idam
    • Rādhe Rādhe Rādhe Shyām
    • sarvesham svastir bhavatu
    • Shambho Shangkara namah Shivaya >
      • Shambhu Shankara Namah Shivaya Krishna Das meaning
      • Om Namah Shivaya Krishna Das. Lyrics, meaning, discussion.
    • shri sache maha prabhu
    • Shiva Shiva Shambho Shangkara
    • Sīta Ram Hanuman.
    • twam eva.
    • tri-ambakam yajamahe >
      • Maha Mrityeonjaya Hein Braat meaning
  • Translated mantras B
    • mangalam bhagavan Vishnu
    • namah Shivaya hare Hari om
    • om bhakta jai
    • Bhakti Heenam
    • om jaya Shiva Shambo
    • om asat oma sad gamaya
    • om mani padme hum
    • om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya
    • om namō narāyanāya
    • om namah Shivaya
    • om param eshvaraya vidmahe
    • om tat purushaya vidmahi
  • Mantras Translated A
    • amma amma taye
    • chid-ananda-rupah shivo-ham
    • The Essence of All
    • gate gate para gate
    • Gayatri om bhur bhuvah svaha
    • Govinda, Gopala Radha. >
      • Radhe Govinda Krishna Das meaning
      • sands of pleasure lyrics translation
    • hare Krishna hare Rama (a) >
      • hare Krishna hare Rama (b)
      • The Hare Krishna Sect.
    • jai Radha Madhava - Meaning.
    • je ma je Kali ma
    • Moola Mantra
  • Spiritual Practice
    • A : Introduction to Practice
    • B : Buddha's Enlightenment
    • C Meditation for Enlightenment.
    • D Self Realisation
    • E : The Ego
    • F : Discharge of DIstress
    • G : Relationships
    • I : Desire >
      • dhammacakkappavattana sutta word by word
    • J : Karma
    • K : Dissatisfaction and Anger
    • References. >
      • New Page 2
      • New Page 3
  • pronouncing the Sanskrit
    • Sanskrit Cases
  • Scriptures
    • Bhagavad Gita
    • Mandukya Upanishad word by word
    • Isha Upanishad word by word
    • Free Enquiry
    • Dhammapada
    • Satipatthana Sutta >
      • Satipatthana Sutta selections
    • Heart Sutra
    • broken buddhism
    • Good and Evil
    • Hindu Themes >
      • Principles
      • Practice
      • The Sacred
      • Practicalities
      • Purusha
  • Protecting Mother Nature.
  • Deity and Kirtan
    • God in Hinduism
    • Interpreting Deity
    • More About Shiva
  • Course in Meditation
    • Instructions During Meditation.
    • 1. All attention on sensation.
    • 2. Return and Stay With
    • 3 Letting Go.
    • 4 Cultivating and Developing.
    • 5 Making Effort
    • 6 Beauty
    • 7 Beauty of Spiritual Qualities
    • 8. Suffering
    • Traditional Terminology
  • About Mike
  • om namah Shivaya

​Let the beauty of Nature attract us to the beauty of sacred language.



​References.

Much of the wisdom of the East is conveyed in Sanskrit or Pali,  which are really different dialects or accents of the same language.  As the internet has developed in recent decades, more scripture and mantra is available online in both English and Pali or Sanskrit,  in word-for-word translation.
 
The word-for-word translation reveals how the translator arrived at his translation.  It also enables us to pull apart the translation,  and find other ways of using the key words as the scholar translates them.  We can also look up these key Sanskrit words,  either in the on line dictionary,  or Googling the word,  or reading any Wikipedia articles about them.  
 
We can then choose some other related English word or expression that better reflects our experience and understanding of spiritual practice.  Too often people have been put off a good scripture because the translation did not “work” for them.
 
Word-for-word translation is transparent,  educative, and encourages investigation.
 
 
Useful Websites for Word-for Word Translations. 
 
Sacred Verse and Mantra.
www.buddha-vacana.org   This website is dedicated to teaching the Pali of Buddhist Suttas.  It has word-for-word translation of the Pali for very many Buddhist Suttas,  and other resources,  see below. 
 
www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org     has word-for-word translation of the Sanskrit.
 
https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/   also has word-for-word translation of the Sanskrit,  for the Bhagavad Gita.
 
https://greenmesg.org/stotras/vedas   has word-for-word translation of the Sanskrit, for more famous Sanskrit mantras.
 
Dictionaries and Glossaries.
http://lirs.ru/lib/dict/Pali-English_Dictionary,1921-25,v1.pdf   gives lengthy and detailed translations.  Please note the alphabetic sequence it uses,  on page 1. 
 
http://www.buddha-vacana.org/toolbox/dico.html  is a concise Pali dictionary,  with shorter translations. 
 
http://www.buddha-vacana.org/gloss.html  is a glossary of many Pali words used in Buddhist scriptures
 
http://www.krishna.com/glossary-k   is a glossary of many Sanskrit words of importance to Hinduism. 
 

https://sanskritdictionary.com  gives many meanings per word,  but accepts only the correct spelling, using all diacritics.  This online dictionary is linked to https://vedabase
 
http://spokensanskrit.org  accepts many spellings,  and you choose the best word.  But it gives few meanings per word.   Capital letters indicate diacritic.  


 
Buddhist Dictionary, by Nyanatiloka,  1946. This is a manual of Buddhist terms and doctrines in Pali,  translated into English.   Available at  :   http://www.buddhistdownload.com/2016/05/buddhist-dictionary-manual-of-buddhist-terms.html  and many other websites!


 
Grammar and Inflections = Declensions.
https://easysanskrit.wordpress.com/tag/eight-noun-cases/  This explains how to use the different cases of Pali and Sanskrit,  based on Latin cases. 
 
http://www.buddha-vacana.org/toolbox/noundec.html   These tables list the different declension or word ending for the eight grammatical cases,  for Pali.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_nouns#a-stems  These tables list the different inflection or word ending for the eight grammatical cases,  for Sanskrit

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​Other Resources.
 
www.accesstoinsight.org   has the Pali,  but no word-for-word translation.  It probably has the biggest and best ordered  collection online  of Buddhist Suttas, which are discourses of the Buddha.  These are mostly translated by Thanissaro,  1995 – 2015.    Several translations are provided for the more important Suttas. 
 
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/   is very similar to accesstoinsight,  but with more cross references to related Suttas,  and only Thanissaro’s translations. 


Bhante Sujato,  now living in at Lokanta Vihāra in Sydney,  provides both Pali and English, for most Buddhist Suttas.  Not word for word translation, but line for line.  On  :    https://legacy.suttacentral.net
 
https://holybooks.com/interpreting-the-upanishads-by-ananda-wood   has both Sanskrit and English,  with much discussion.  The Upanishads usually presented in obscure language that confuses more than clarifies.  So I offer my own translations of select Upanishad  in clear comprehensible style.  Ananda Wood gives an intellectual interpretation of Upanishads.
 
https://www.sivasakti.com/tantra/other-hindu-deities/shiva-the-god-of-destruction/   gives a very Hindu description of Shiva.
 

Understanding Hinduism,  by Dr DC Rao,  is an excellent treatise on best principles and practices in the religion.  In question and answer format.  Available at –
https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/UnderstandingHinduismBasicQuestionsAnswered-DC-Rao.pdf
There is another treatise,  same name and author,  same themes,  but in nineteen chapters, and easier to navigate in.  Published here on this website under “Hindu Themes”  in four webpages. 



 https://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/wordofbuddha.pdf  “The Word of the Buddha  by Nyanatiloka”, 1906,  first published in English in 1946.  This is a systematic treatise of Theravadan Buddhist doctrine.  It’s in the form of almost a hundred quotes from the Pali scriptures.  It gives the Pali for the important words.  


The Concise Oxford Dictionary,  1982, 1200 pages.  This is what I use to define English words.

The Power of Now,  by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.  Two million copies of this remarkable book had been sold by 2004.  His lucid and non religious explanation of key Buddhist and Hindu themes, including enlightenment, God, attachment to and letting go of thought, mindfulness, consciousness,  being in the Now,  all these were the original inspiration to all my writings on spiritual practice.  
 


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